29th September 2026

Roadblocks Ahead! Navigating The Major Issues Of Mobile Forensics
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Magnet Forensics' Christopher Vance tackles the biggest roadblocks in mobile forensics, from keeping a seized phone isolated, powered and safe from reboot timers to handling 1TB devices and proprietary data....

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Belkasoft Releases Belkasoft X v2.12, Adding Offline Translation And AI-Assisted Database Analysis

Belkasoft Releases Belkasoft X v2.12, Adding Offline Translation And AI-Assisted Database Analysis

29th September 2026

Belkasoft X 2.12 brings offline AI-powered translation, smarter SQLite analysis, expanded mobile and Windows evidence support, and more flexible acquisition workflows....read more

Green Meets Blue: A Brief RCS Forensic Excursion

Green Meets Blue: A Brief RCS Forensic Excursion

29th September 2026

What does RCS mean for digital forensics? MSAB Digital Forensic Specialist Markus Hess breaks down how RCS works, who uses it and where investigators can find the forensic evidence....read more

ADF Solutions Named A Major Player In IDC MarketScape For Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

ADF Solutions Named A Major Player In IDC MarketScape For Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

28th September 2026

ADF Solutions has been named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Forensics Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment, recognizing the company's continued focus on intelligent triage, automation, and AI-driven digital investigations....read more

Review: Practical Mobile Forensics

Considering that there are separate books – indeed, whole genres – devoted to Android and iOS forensics specifically, writing a single tome that covers mobile forensics in a meaningful way is an ambitious task. Not to be put off by

Practical Mobile Forensics

Reviewed by Scar de Courcier, Forensic Focus Considering that there are separate books – indeed, whole genres – devoted to Android and iOS forensics specifically, writing a single tome that covers mobile forensics in a meaningful way is an ambitious

Head Swap On Seagate Css Hard Drives

After the first head replacement tool made for Maxtor hard drives got top grades, HddSurgery continued researching and developing products for head swap operations on hard drives. After years of developing and innovating, we are proud to know that our

Interview with Joe Giordano, Professor of Practice, Utica College

Joe, can you tell us something about your background and why you decided to teach digital forensics? I am a Professor of Practice at Utica College (Utica, New York) and also serve as the director of two master’s degree programs

Joe Giordano, Professor of Practice, Utica College

Joe, can you tell us something about your background and why you decided to teach digital forensics? I am a Professor of Practice at Utica College (Utica, New York) and also serve as the director of two master’s degree programs

ReclaiMe Has Implemented Drobo Recovery Capability

ReclaiMe Data Recovery Company announced that their ReclaiMe Pro software now is equipped with Drobo recovery algorithms. The recovery techniques used in ReclaiMe Pro allow to recover data from broken Drobo units like Drobo 5N, Drobo 5D, and Drobo FS.Two

Review: Learning Android Forensics

Learning Android Forensics was written by Rohit Tamma and Donnie Tindall, and aims to provide a thorough introduction to the forensic analysis of smartphones running the Android operating system, from the initial setup of a forensic workstation through to analysing

Learning Android Forensics

Reviewed by Scar de Courcier, Forensic Focus Learning Android Forensics was written by Rohit Tamma and Donnie Tindall, and aims to provide a thorough introduction to the forensic analysis of smartphones running the Android operating system, from the initial setup

Webinar: Indicators of Compromise

A recording of the webinar “Indicators of Compromise: What’s Interesting, What’s Not and What Else Is Needed” is now online and available to view here. Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the

Indicators of Compromise: What’s Interesting, What’s Not and What Else Is Needed

Presenters: Brandon Dunlap, Managing Director of Research, Brightfly; Ismael Valenzuela, IR Technical Practice Mgr, Foundstone; Mat Gangwer, Information Security Analyst, Rook Security Join the forum discussion here.View the webinar on YouTube here.Read a full transcript of the webinar here. Transcript

Forensic Focus Forum Round-Up

Welcome to this round-up of recent posts to the Forensic Focus forums. Should university courses include open-source or commercial software, or a mixture of both? Add your thoughts on the forum. Forum members discuss whether it is possible to recover

UK Government Tackles Dark Web With New Cybercrime Unit

The UK government has launched a dedicated cybercrime unit given the task of tackling serious crime rings and the sexual abuse of children online. The Dark Web is a tiny area of the Deep Web – a hidden area of

US Charges Three In Cyberfraud Targeting JPMorgan And Others

U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled criminal charges against three men accused of running a sprawling computer hacking and fraud scheme that included a huge attack against JPMorgan Chase & Co and generated hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal profit.

Virtual Hard Disk Image Format – A Forensic Overview

by Anil Kumar The hard disk of a VM is implemented as the files, which live on their native file systems of the host machine. MS Virtual PC & MS Virtual Server support the below mentioned types of virtual hard